Immryg-Umryss, The Snatcher

Born from the sinister crossbreeding of an ogre mage and a wyvern, Immryg-Umryss is not the prototypical dragon. While it looks everything like a dragon should, the veneer is where its similarity with other dragons ends. Immryg-Umryss is a twisted and malevolent force at times and a complex and kind being at others. This confluence leads to problems, again and again.

Immryg-Umryss (a name composed of the words for ogre and wyvern in a mad wizard's language) is a magical creature, with non of the preternatural aspects of normal dragons. It lacks all of a dragon's typical instincts and has had to learn on its own how to deal with outsiders. It does not hoard gold. It does not burn villages to the ground with fire. It does not gather minions around it to inflate its ego. In fact, Immryg-Umryss has lived outside the ordinary worlds of dragons for more than 300 years. Alone, aloof and awkward, the great dragon is an outsider in a world of tyrannical beasts. As such, it is very lonely. But it has a solution.

Immryg-Umryss has taken many hostages over the years. It took a bit of trial and error to learn humans are soft and cannot be handled in a rough manner. It took even longer to learn that young humans live longer and make lasting companions. Each hostage served as another learning step in its development. Everything it understand about the world has come through learning from others or through repetitive failure.